snow! :)

I'm all cozy tucked into bed, which is the most comfortable (and warmest) place in the house to sit.  I'm watching the Puissance 2009 in London (world cup show jumping) and at the same time watching snow falling steadily outside our window.  The Puissance is high-jumping for horses!

This weather is so weird.  When I woke up this morning and looked out the window, it was sunny and frigid -- a very thick frost coating everything and ice all over the pavements.  Then I went for a long walk with my friend Naomi down the canal path, and there was ice on the canal and really thick layers of ice on the path in some spots (really treacherous).  The sun was still shining until we were ready to turn around and walk back, and then it started pouring rain, and it poured all the way back.  Just after I got inside the house, the wind suddenly picked up and started gusting against the house, and WHOOSH!  just like that, the rain turned to thick snow and it looked like a nor'easter outside!  Within five minutes enough snow had fallen to cover the pavements and the roads.  It has been snowing for about 45 minutes now, and is begininng to slacken off, but who knows what will happen next!

David is on the bus on his way to Snizort, where he will be preaching during both services tomorrow.   We decided that I would stay home for this trip because it is such a long, exhausting bus ride up and back and I don't do very well with the windy roads.  We were just up and back to Inverness at the beginning of the week and I need to start cutting back on the amount of time spent traveling now that I'm pregnant.  Especially with the amount of exhaustion I've been battling.  So poor David is on his way to spend the weekend alone in a huge empty manse.  I'm going to be spending a couple nights with my friend Naomi while he's away.

We had a good time in Inverness with the other students, as always.   And good curry, and good fellowship. . . Tiring, though.  It's always a rather intense couple of days.

I had my first prenatal appointment on Monday and that went really well.  Had a scan done and David and I both saw our wee Lachman Ness Monster for the first time!  That was exciting and rather overwhelming!!  When I have a chance to get a digital copy of the scan, I'll post it.  :-)